Research Briefs

Five pillars of research exploring the collapse of traditional design and the emergence of AI-native creative practice.

The designer you know is dead. A new hybrid archetype is being born.

UI, UX, visual, motion—the silos are collapsing into one AI-native role.

Meet the designer who codes, strategizes, and directs machines.

Design skill shifts from execution to intelligent selection and iteration.

In an age of generative design, the remaining edge is judgment, taste, and systems thinking.

The new skill isn't design—it's the ability to direct machines with precision.

Figma is dead. Long live the AI-native design stack of agents and APIs.

Design tools transform from interfaces for creation to command centers for orchestration.

What happens when everything auto-generates? When there's nothing left to design?

In a post-scarcity design world, meaning-making becomes the only durable value.